Getting ready for Thanksgiving Dinner. #TurkeyPaella 🦃 🥘

We're thrilled today to announce our endorsements for Mayor, Comptroller, Borough President, and City Council for New York City's November 4th general election, headlined by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor. Read all about our full slate of candidates here: www.streetspac.org/mamdani_2025...

Oh well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I wonder what the fuck does "violating our rules against authenticity" means. That I pretended I was not myself? I mean, I do that every now and then, sure.

Anyone here involved in game development in or near Massachusetts? Known someone? Can RT?

Hey @hoverbird.bsky.social ! Do you know anyone involved in game development in Massachusetts?

Okay, this is going to be really vivid for anybody who was doing Rails programming in 2006, but I discovered there were no video versions of the two flash movies of "Everyone is Here in the Future" that _why the lucky stiff made that year for Railsconf. The site was still archived here though!

The latest @99pi.org episode should have included a content warning at the end. I'm listening to it in a commuter train and people are starting to wonder why this grown man is crying a little. 🥲

Content Warning: Crossword Pedantry Twice this year has the #NYTCrossword used "Slack Convo" to clue "IMS". What you're referring to is "DMS". There are no "IMS" in Slack, and the term is no longer in use in messaging apps, so you'll need a better clue. /CC @rexparker.bsky.social

In Bruges

Sightly diminish a band: The Mall Police

Happy world emoji day! 🫓🫓🫓🫓🫓🫓

Made it in time for the opening keynote. #railsconf

Up at the crack of dawn for a 3h drive to Philadelphia for #RailsConf. I was there for the inaugural one, Chicago in 2006 and I'm glad to be there for the last one.

Very good results overall for @streetspac.org endorsed candidates, which continues to demonstrate that being for affordable, efficient and sustainable transportation options and quality public space is smart politics.

You love to see this happen to a guy who is absolutely parked in a bike lane right now

If you vote in the NYC Primaries, here's a great set of endorsements from @streetspac.org! But more importantly, DO NOT RANK CUOMO!

11/ Thanks to the folks who worked on Direct File. We have a lot of gratitude.

1/ I’m working on tax filing software, and this caught me by surprise: an engineer just open sourced the IRS's Direct File project (now that it seems likely the current administration will shut down the program for next year).

I bet we're weeks away from seeing the first LLM service with "sponsored tokens". "Hey ChatGPT, give me a summary of this document" "Sure, it explains the maintenance plan for your car, but maybe you should consider visiting your local TriState Subaru dealer"

Hey you, yes you — here's your golden chance to follow me and help this humble artist finally break the 1000-plus followers mark and reveal my new, commemoratory art piece! 😬🎨 Only 3 more new happy followers to go!

Partial list of things that always come in threes, that everybody knows always come in threes, never one or two, or four, yet we still find surprising: 1️⃣ Celebrity deaths. 2️⃣ USB port connection attempts. 3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.

Partial list of things that always come in threes, that everybody knows always come in threes, never one or two, or four, yet we still find surprising: 1️⃣ Celebrity deaths. 2️⃣ USB port connection attempts. 3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.

Trans people are the most clear-sighted and courageous people I know. To understand and embrace yourself in a society that uses high courts to attempt to erase you takes immense bravery. I feel that courage and am inspired by it. Thank you for being you. Please keep being you.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

It’s the stupid, economy.

Diversity didn’t crash the stock market. Equity didn’t crash the stock market. Inclusion didn’t crash the stock market. Immigrants didn’t crash the stock market. Trans people didn’t crash the stock market.

Why does Hulu think I have both HIV and Erection Disfunction? Decades of invading my privacy and the best you can do is this?

I am dropping this on Bluesky first since I think this is the place to be. This is my 1,111th Streetfilm so it's a cool numerical milestone! But even better this is a great 15 minute film and definitely consider one of my Top Ten. For my birthday give it a play! #Urbanism youtu.be/VSN1BR6es6E

Hey, if you could please let your friends know that @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social exists -- we have a new episode out tomorrow, and if we can get to 200k listeners an episode, that would be enough for us to live off of (and we're about halfway there!) Thank you so much.

the difference between meeting a famous writer and meeting a famous businessperson way too often is that after meeting the writer you leave understanding why they are successful and after meeting the businessperson you leave wondering how they are successful

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

DtMF

Amanece en la Isla del Encanto

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Forgot to post, but we're back at the local bar for trivia night. After three rounds, two of which were won by "Team Salsa Caliente 💃" (that's us, if you were wondering) we're up by 500 points and have a chance to wrap it up in the fourth round.

just like to get whoever put this up in London a beer 👍

Praise the Lord

My first Kindle purchase was in August 2008. Today I spent my morning downloading all 300+ books I've purchased in these 17 years, and buying a new e-reader device (a refurbished Boox Color 7 if you were wondering).

I'm done with #dragonsweeper danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

I hate books and tv series that end in a cliff hanger, when you know the next volume or season will take a couple of years to show up. I'm looking at you @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social and your Navola. Sfaccita fescata!

Overheard in the work slack: "If you look around and you can't tell who the DBA is, you're the DBA"

Decided to update Xcode on free airport wifi. Will I make my flight? At least it's not a fresh `npm install`. That'd probably take a week.

We should have done this years ago.

Friday's are for trivia at the local bar. But Saturdays? Saturdays are for disco at the local pizza place. 🪩 🍕

It's trivia night at the local bar again. Wish me luck.

I know you are independent but you're denying yourself the biggest mode of input in NYC local politics, please pick a party and register by Feb 14!

At the local bar for trivia night. For the first time I'm here early enough to be in the first round. Wish me luck.

Queremos llegar a más personas en Bluesky. ¿Nos ayudas? Sigue a @datadista.com y comparte nuestras investigaciones ❤️

Welcome @nws.noaa.gov to Bluesky! Word is all the local offices are going to be joining soon as well. 🎉🌤️